Welcome to St Barnabas’ in Pound Hill and

St Nicholas’ in Worth

This sheet details the readings in today’s services as well as notices for everyone.

We have re-instated the circulation of the collection plate during the offertory hymn at both churches. Please give what you can when you can by whatever means you prefer: plate, card reader, Parish Giving Scheme. Every Little Helps! Thank you.

SERVICES TODAY

Our churches are now open again (With Covid precautions – see page 3)

Certain services will still be available online (live or recorded)

08:00 Said Eucharist (BCP) St Nicholas’ Celebrant & Preacher Revd Gordon Parry

10:00 Sung Eucharist St Barnabas’ Celebrant & Preacher Revd Sarah Upchurch

10:15 Sung Eucharist St Nicholas’ Celebrant & Preacher Fr Michael Boag We welcome 4th Worth Scouts to our annual Service of Remembrance

In the Book of Daniel and Mark’s gospel we read of references to difficult times: ‘a time of anguish’ from Daniel and wars as well as ‘rumours of wars’ identified by Christ as an inevitable accompaniment to the transformation of the world. This is depressing. Can’t humanity do better? Is conflict an inescapable part of human existence? The stirring of memories, the acknowledgment of sacrifice and loss, the contemplation of how it is on the earth and how it might be in a new order of existence are all necessary elements of the act of Remembrance that takes place on the Sunday nearest to Armistice Day – the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 when ‘the war to end all wars’ formally came to an end, ‘signed off’ by the representatives of the warring parties in a railway carriage close to Compiègne in northern France. How have we done since then? Wars persist in many parts of the world, some openly and some clandestinely. Although our own country can look to a period of stability within most (not all) parts of our own continent, Europe, we have still been involved in armed conflict in other parts of the world. Even in the United Kingdom itself, tensions and passions erupt into violence sporadically in Northern Ireland. If war is inevitable as a transformative process then why don’t we just accept it? Christ taught us that there is another way. Love trumps all. Love is the driver to efforts to make a better world as humanity tried to do after the Second World War. Crawley is an example of that. Christian ethics drive many who work in conflict-ridden, deprived communities all over the world. Conflict is human. Peace is divine.

Gordon

14 November 2021

Remembrance

Sunday

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Collect God, our refuge and strength, bring near the days when wars shall cease and poverty and pain shall end, that earth may know the peace of heaven; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Reading Micah 4.1-4 In days to come the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised up above the hills. Peoples shall stream to it, and many nations shall come and say: ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.’ For out of Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between many peoples, and shall arbitrate between strong nations far away;

they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift

up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more; but they shall all sit under their own vines and under their own fig trees, and no one shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.

Gospel John 15.9-17 ‘As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. ‘This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made

known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.’

Post Communion God of peace, whose Son Jesus Christ proclaimed the kingdom and restored the broken to wholeness of life: look with compassion on the anguish of the world, and by your healing power make whole both people and nations; through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen

SERVICES THIS WEEK

Mon 15 Nov

13:00 Funeral St Nicholas’

Tues 16 Nov

10:30 Said Eucharist St Barnabas’

Thur 18 Nov

10:30 Said Eucharist St Nicholas’

Fri 19 Nov

11:00 Funeral St Nicholas’

Sun 21 Nov

8:00 Eucharist (BCP) 10:00 Sung Eucharist 10:15 Sung Eucharist 11:45 Baptism

St Nicholas’ St Barnabas’ St Nicholas’ St Nicholas’

Sunday 21 November 2021 Christ the King

Daniel 7.9-10,13-14 Psalm 93 Revelation 1.4b-8 John 18.33-37

DIARY NOTES & NOTICES

Covid Precautions in Church

While many of the Government restrictions have now been lifted, we are continuing to be careful and cautious in both our churches:

• Please wear masks (if not exempt) and use hand sanitizer when entering and moving about inside.

• Masks may be removed during the service. • We have resumed congregational singing. If

you are uncomfortable with this, please sit somewhere apart from or behind those who are singing.

Pastoral Centre Café

The Café is open for Coffee and Cake on Wed and Sat from 10:00.

Scrabble and Cake on 10th November raised £35.50 for St Barnabas’ Refurbishment Fund. Thanks to our supporters

November Messy Church

Please join us for the story, crafts, songs and prayers, followed by a light tea. The second November Messy Church will be on: Wed 17 Nov 15:15, in the Hall at St Barnabas’. Everyone welcome - mums, dads, grandparents, carers - come and enjoy!

Friday Lunches

Lunch in the Pastoral Centre at 12:30 on 19 Nov. Two courses and a drink £6.50. To help with catering please book your place at the Pastoral Centre (café open Wed and Sat) or via the Parish Office, by Wed 17 Nov. All welcome.

Parish Hall Barn Dance

Sat 20 Nov Doors 17:30; dancing 18:00-21:00 – for all the congregation and friends. Blackthorn Band; meal and soft drinks provided. Tickets: £12 adult, £7 under 16s. Contact the Parish Office.

Ensemble Reza Candlelit Concert Fri 26 November 19:00

Due to popular demand, Reza’s magical Candlelit concert this year will be taking place at St Nicholas' Church, Worth. Come and join us for an evening of beautiful music & relax with a glass of warmed mulled wine. Programme to include music by Gershwin including American in Paris and Dvorak's American Quartet. Performers: Ensemble Reza Sextet; Clarinet: Steve Dummer. For tickets please visit www.ticketsource.co.uk/ensemble-reza

Festivals this week

Tues 16 Nov

Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the

Church 1093 (LF) Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury

1240 (C)

Wed 17 Nov

Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln 1200 (LF)

Thur 18 Nov

Elizabeth of Hungary, Princess of Thuringia, Philanthropist

1231 (LF)

Fri 19 Nov

Hilda, Abbess of Whitby 680 (LF)

Mechtild, Béguine of Magdeburg, Mystic 1280 (C)

Sat 20 Nov

Edmund, King of the East Angles, Martyr 870 (LF)

Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the

Church of England 1876 (C)

(F) Festival; (LF) Lesser Festival; (C) Commemoration

The Hangout

Youth Club at St Barnabas’ continues on Fridays 19:00-20:30 Years 7-11. Entry free.

Weekly during term time.

Toddlers Group

The Toddlers Group meets on Tuesdays 13:00-15:00 and Thursdays 9:00-11:00 during term time in St Barnabas’ Hall.

Saturday Market

On 27 Nov 10:00-12:00 in St Barnabas’ Café in aid of St Barnabas’ Refurbishment. Donations of new or as-new items for sale welcomed.

CD player/iPod

Fr Michael is looking for a simple (working but not needed) CD player we can plug into the sound system at St Nicholas’. Something small would be good. (Not battery operated.) Also, does anyone have a (working but not needed) iPod we can use? Please bring it to church. Many thanks!

CONTACTS The Rector Fr Michael Boag 01293 882229 rector@worthparish.org (Tues-Sun)

Vicar at St Barnabas’ Revd Sarah Upchurch 01293 524804 vicarstb@worthparish.org (Tues-Sun)

Assistant Priest Revd Gordon Parry 07802 432398 gordonmwparry@btinternet.com

Assistant Priest Fr Francis Pole 07764 752608 francis.pole@virgin.net

Assistant Curate Revd Greta, the Curate (Thurs & Sun) curate@worthparish.org

Churchwardens David Anderson (St B) 01293 409914 stbwarden@worthparish.org Rose Wells (St N) 01293 884250 stnwarden@worthparish.org Colin Smith (St N) 01293 889894

Worth Parish Office Sue Perry 0300 111 8150 office@worthparish.org

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